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GEN. KELLY HAS BEEN A TRUMPSTER ALL ALONG
“He’s proudly ignorant, he’s a liar, and he’s a shameless bully and demagogue,” Jon Schwarz writes in The Intercept, and unlike Kelly or Trump, he relies on fact to enumerate the shocking, totalitarian cant Kelly’s been declaiming for years.
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FASCIST NOISE MACHINE JEANINE PIRRO
Urges us to jettison the entire American system of justice and just lock up Hillary. Will she get even one phone call?
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HOW DOES SCOTT PRUITT LOOK HIS KIDS IN THE FACE?
The Koch brothers-appointed messenger of death is working overtime to curtail their future, and the continued existence of humankind. I’m sure his kids are too brainwashed to know what Daddy’s doing to them, but over in Portugal, a group of … Continue reading
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INSIDIOUS MORON ANDRE WALKER
I mean, really, we could spend all day lambasting the Fascist shock troops of the right, couldn’t we? New York Observer columnist Andre Walker touted the anti-knowledge, (because it’s power, baby), anti-literacy, anti-public sector crusade of the right, tweeting an … Continue reading
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I HATE COERSIVE LANGUAGE
such as pours out of Trump and White House, Inc on an hourly–no, minute by minute basis. No, Mr. President, it is not “commonly agreed” that you have been exonerated! I hate it when critics use it, too–“everybody knows,” “nobody … Continue reading
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BUT WAS PAULINE LORD PROTO-METHOD?
No question that Lee Strasberg was an exceptional director, actor, and teacher, but he was also highly manipulative and a self-promoter. Case in point is perhaps — In 1924 Strasberg was in the ensemble of Sidney Howard’s They Knew What … Continue reading
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FASCIST HARPY LAURA INGRAHAM
leads the standard operating procedure GOP campaign to flip the script by pretending that it was Hillary colluding with the Russians.
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THE GOP WILL PLY ANY DISTRACTION
The sideshow comes roaring back, with re-opened investigations into yes, really, Hillary Clinton. Perhaps Jason Chaffetz will now feel free to return to office. This is an administration and a party committed to turning the United States into a cautionary … Continue reading
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TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION BEGINS AT HOME
James Wolcott asks in Vanity Fair how America can recover from Trump and mount a pre-emptive defense against the next Fascist incursion. Jim is right–Laura Ingraham’s Nazi salute really said it all, didn’t it?
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TOM PEREZ IS TRUE TO CLINTONITE FORM
Despite the sweeping damage done to the Democratic party by the Clintons and Obama, Obama pick Tom Perez is purging Bernie Sanders and Keith Ellison supporters from the Democratic National Committee–and putting in Clintonites. Thanks for the legacy gift, Mr. … Continue reading
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